Richard Martino
Dynamic Leader

Overview

Richard Martino is an effective and dynamic leader by building up and building upon the camaraderie of his teammates. He deftly blends the different personalities of his team to encourage interaction and communication, and delegates as much as possible to maximize project ownership. Some of his most challenging accomplishments have been:

• Led 500 volunteers to raise money through church festivals.
• Led team of four Unix technicians in production support.
• Founded own computer consulting company.
• Led team of four software engineers
• Toastmasters International Area Governor & Division Governor

In addition to being a dynamic leader, he is also an accomplished teacher and a software guru, all three of which are combined into his dossier.

Leadership Experience

• President, St. Jude Cathedral School Advisory Committee, 2005-06
• Lead group of volunteers research & offer advice to the church rector and school principal concerning the long term strategy of the school.
• Fall Festival Chairman, St. Jude Cathedral, St. Petersburg, 2003-04
• Led 500 parish, school parent and teacher volunteers raise money via Fall Festivals in 2003 & 2004.
• Client/Server Team Lead, Verizon Data Services, Temple Terrace, 1996 - 2002
• Led 24 x 7 client/server production support team for Informix & Oracle databases on HP/UX & IBM AIX in sync w/DB2 on IBM mainframe
• Led software engineer write automatic database manipulation system
• Taught UNIX & shell script to department
• Mentored two junior associates to become team leads
• Led director-level Employee of the Month Committee
• Selected by management for Continuous Process Improvement Team
• ISO 9000 Management Representative
• Through his own initiative:
  • Saved $215K/year by automating work processes
  • Automated Informix database reorg's by writing cronjobs & Informix SQL & eliminated manual reorg's
  • Automated end-of-month processing & eliminated person logging in at midnight
• Owner, Designer Software, Inc., Clearwater, 1989-93
• Incorporated & ran own computer consulting business.
• Hired employee to work as subcontractor at GTE Information Systems
• Placed subcontractor at Contraves
• Led team of 3 software engineers develop sales tool for fixed price
• Systems Engineer, Nixdorf Computers, Tampa, 1987-89
• Through his own initiative, disassembled UNIX system status commands to teach himself their logic, then applied knowledge to write own real-time system monitoring program
• Software Engineering Project Lead, Paradyne, Largo, 1979-84
• Led team of 4 software engineers write word processor
• Graduate Teaching Ass't, Physics Dep't, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1976-77
• Through his own initiative, led extra physics review sessions
• Volunteer, Physics Department, Pennsylvania State University, 1975-76
• In order to get the experience, volunteered to help physics department with software engineering of numerical solutions of advanced physics problems. Saved hundreds of dollars in CPU costs by rewriting numerical solution of differential equation into IBM Mainframe Assembler.
• Distinguished Toastmaster, Toastmasters International, 1978-2003
• Area Governor of north Pinellas County and west Pasco County, 1981-82
• Division Governor of west Florida: Citrus County to Collier County to Polk County, 1982-83
• Founder or co-founder of five new Toastmaster clubs: Raymond James, Paradyne, Speakeasy, Advocate & Tampa Bay Toastmasters
• Winner of several speech contests

Education

• On his own time and for no degree or certificate, taught himself principles of psychology, personality and leadership.
• Also, please see separate page on Education.

Additional Information

• Skills, Traits, Business Philosophy, Distinguishing Factors
• Intelligence Versus Knowledge, Yet Another Computer Language
• Contact Information